The Terrifying Real-Life Captain America Experiment

In 1943, as World War II raged, the U.S. military launched a classified program called Project Sentinel. The goal sounded like something out of a comic book: build a soldier who never tired, never disobeyed, and never died. Their first volunteer was Elias Turner, a perfectly healthy young recruit willing to serve his country forever. At first, the serum looked like a miracle. His strength soared. Bullet wounds sealed, burns vanished, broken bones snapped back into place. Scientists celebrated—they thought they had created a real-life Captain America.

Then everything went wrong. Within two weeks, Elias stopped sleeping. He stood for hours staring at blank walls, whispering the names of people no one knew. He answered questions before anyone asked them. Weapons disappeared from locked storage. Guards vanished from their posts. Security footag ...